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The deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history occurred 75 years ago in 1946 when the Winecoff Hotel in downtown Atlanta burned, costing 119 people their lives. Two men who were at the fire, but never knew each other before, recently met in Jackson and shared their experiences. Walter Sonny Mayfield, 87, of Decatur, was a 12-year-old Boy Scout helping firefighters at the fire. Albert Sonny Welby, 73, of Monticello, is known as the youngest survivor of the fire as his mother was two to three months pregnant with him and staying at the Winecoff at the time of the fire. Mayfield and Welby met through their association with Nicholas Fitton, the owner of Section 8 Tactical Supply store in Jackson. Mayfield s daughter Laura is dating Fitton and Mayfield came down April 7 to visit her and his two grandsons. He and Fitton were talking and the fire came up. When Fitton learned Mayfield had been there, he mentioned that Welby, who works for him at Section 8, had also been there, and Mayfield a

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